Sarah Ferguson regularly visited Jeffrey Epstein's building, biographer reveals

Fresh allegations have thrown Sarah Ferguson back into the spotlight, with claims that the former Duchess of York continued to stay at properties linked to Jeffrey Epstein years after she supposedly severed all ties with him.

Fergie publicly insisted back in 2011 that she had ended contact with Epstein. But newly surfaced claims paint a very different picture and potentially extend her association with the convicted sex offender until 2014.

According to biographer Andrew Lownie, who released a bombshell book on Sarah and her ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor earlier this year, multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing Fergie entering and exiting a New York City apartment block deeply connected to Epstein.

He told the Daily Expressshow that Sarah was seen at 301 East 66th Street, a property owned by Epstein’s brother, Mark, where several units were reportedly handed over for Jeffrey’s personal use.

In a new interview with Express.co.uk, he doubled down, and added even more explosive detail.

Lownie said: “She was seen by a local resident Claudine Prabst who got chatting to doormen whilst out dog walking after she had seen Fergie emerge from the building one day. Epstein housed various women in the block.”

He added a striking detail, that the doormen were required to go into full regalia whenever Sarah visited: “The doorman actually said that when she was staying there, and it was frequently, they would have to put on their full-dress uniform.”

Epstein, he said, “really put the boat out” for her.

The renewed scrutiny comes on the heels of a leaked 2011 email to Epstein, published by the Daily Mail, in which Sarah called him “a steadfast, generous and supreme friend to me and my family”, despite having publicly distanced herself from him.

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